Andrew Ross Sorkin Quotes

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

You can get wrapped up in that megamerger mentality.

Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.

When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Never make too good of a deal. It sounds a little counterintuitive, but the deals that are too good of a deal for you in the long run will end up hurting you. A lot of people in our business don't realize that. They think their job is to go in a room and negotiate the highest price.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they're in the kitchen cooking. So it's understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I've been making deals all my life.

I don't make deals, I make pictures.

Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him.

Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

... the world's largest merger.

To put a halt to what it considered to be a rising tide of concentration in American business, Congress, with full power to do so, decided to clamp down with vigor on mergers … on the premise that mergers do tend to accelerate concentration in an industry. Many believe that this assumption of Congress is wrong, and that the disappearance of small businesses with a correlative concentration of business in the hands of a few is bound to occur whether mergers are prohibited or not. But it is not for the courts to review the policy decision of Congress…

It [a merger] will eliminate the two firms' vigorous competition against each other.

If you have six corporate centres, six treasuries, six of everything, and then if you bring it down to one of everything, obviously there are some savings.

The most expensive way to do business is to do it deal by deal, each of which is highly contentious.

I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.

To many of you, Sprint may seem like a burden for SoftBank. But in my view, Sprint is going to be one of SoftBank's primary cash cows.

The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.

In my role as executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization and founder and CEO of my own lifestyle brand, I've had a lot of practice negotiating.

LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.

I had a couple of agents, but then I went on my own. I thought I could negotiate my own deals and it was probably my biggest mistake.

Do I think that if Google wanted to go acquire a competitor, another big company, we should say no? Of course. We shouldn't be approving them acquiring AT&T or Sprint or some big company.